BADIN, Feb 19: At least 18 people, including four women and a child, were injured when a passenger bus they were travelling in fell into a deep ravine near Mirwah bridge three kilometres away from here on Tuesday.

The bus was going to Seerani from Badin and when it was crossing the bridge it overturned and fell into the ditch. More than 18 passengers sustained injuries.

The injured were rushed to Badin Civil Hospital. According to Dr Musarrat Hussain Khwaja at the hospital, condition of a patient, Soomar, was critical and he was referred to Hyderabad. No FIR was registered.

Amina, Bakhtiar, Mohammad Siddique, Mir Mohammad, Soomar, Ameen, Malhar, Jumo, Sanjar, Ramzan, Saima, Soobi, Nooran, Esso and others are among the injured.

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